Ahrar al-Sham is the largest member of the Islamic Front and is neither an al-Qaeda affiliate or a designated “terrorist organization”.

This is the second time JaN has been hit by coalition airstrikes.

US Central Command said that the strikes targeted the Khorasan group, a group that was mentioned a week before they were hit during the initial strikes.

US Intelligence has said that the group is attached to JaN and works to conduct attacks outside of Syria on Western targets.

The release specifically said that the strikes were not against “the Nusrah Front as a whole”, and not in response to their fight against the Syrian Revolutionaries Front, but against the group whose “focus is not on overthrowing the Asad regime or helping the Syrian people”.

JaN, backed by other groups, captured several towns from the FSA-affiliated SRF last week, and from the FSA-affilaited Harakat Hazm.

In the previous release mentioning strikes against the Khorasan group, there were no references to JaN.

Abu Baqr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, ordered that the members of the Sheitat Tribe be allowed back to their homes in Deir Ez Zor.

The tribe briefly revolted against the IS over the summer, before being brutally put down and expelled. At least 100 fighters and 600 civilians were beheaded, and around 1,800 remain missing. The tribe has around 70,000 members.

The members have to declare that the individuals who fought the IS are apostates, will not be allowed to carry weapons, hold meetings, and for the first 2 months will have a curfew between 8 PM and 5 AM.